Skip to main content

Final Thoughts... 💭


    As I'm wrapping up this final assignmnment I want to use a last post to reflect a little bit on not only this blog, but the subject we went through this year. During 2021 all the tools and theoretical frameworks detailed in this blog were worked on and explored in order to know the role that technology can have in the classroom. And that was the final purpose of this blog, showing how these modern ideas and tools can improve lessons and help students reach real understanding of any topic. 

    During these two lesson plans the theory studied during the year was applied in different ways, but the main frameworks that I considered when planning were Bloom's Digital Taxonomy, Active Learning and one that I haven't really gotten into so far, the TPACK model. First, I considered that students need to go over Bloom's low order thinking skills before going up to the high order ones in order to organise how they acquire the knowledge before they use it in more complex ways, concluding in the creation of a final product. Then, all activities aim to create active learning in students instead of giving them a passive role in which they just try to absorb what the teacher says, as you can see in the lessons the teacher does not lecture students or makes them correct worksheets at any point, the idea is that true understanding comes from their own actions. 

    Finally, the TPACK model is also present throughout the blog, in this framework the basis for truely meaningful and deep understanding of a topic with the aid of technology, the correct use of pedagogical methods and with the appropriate content. TPACK allows teacher to carry out the most effective teaching possible, and these ideas of using the right tool with the right purpose has been considered through my blog.

    Personally, I think that applying all this theory into a real situation, planning, was a great way of consolidating the knowledge that I've aquired this year. This assignment in it of itself is a perfect example of active learning, in which we have had to apply knowledge rather than writing about in on a paper. I'm sure that there is no way I'll forget anything that has been included in this blog and I can't wait to put all of this into practice in my own classes, using modern technology to improve lessons and showing students there is more than one way of learning something. 





References:

- "TPACK Explained" by Matt Koheler.

- "Bloom's Digital Taxonomy" by Niall McNulty.

- "21st Century Skills" on The Glossary for Education Reform.

Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Lesson #1

     So, where do we start? Our class will be composed by students from the second year of secondary school, they would be around the B1 level. For our first lesson on Reported Speech, students will have seen the basic rules of this topic in the previous class. Now it's time for them to start reporting statements, questions and orders. In this class students will start by revising how to report direct speech and then will work. The last topic students looked into was in their previous class was vocabulary related to the environment, this will be necessary for their final product of this unit but will not be included in this lesson.       🙇‍♂️ Warm up activity:       Students will have to log into a Nearpod presentation that is being displayed in the class' TV. When everyone has logged in through their phones the teacher will start a video with a scene from the TV series FRIENDS . The video will stop on its own every once in a while and ask students a multiple choice questions
Post a Comment
Read more

Lesson #2

     For our second lesson we will start by checking homework from last time and using it as warm up excercise for the main activity of the day that will also work as a final product for the unit. In this class students will also need to use their knowledge of vocabulary related to the environment,  a topic that has been fully covered in previous classes.      💪  Warm up activity:     To begin the new lesson students will need to have done their homework and uploaded statements and questions to a Padlet board. When the teacher starts the class the Padlet board will be displayed on the TV, students will then have to join the board through their phones and choose different quotes to transform into reported speech, meanwhile the teacher will be looking at these sentences and giving a "like" to the correct ones.      This short activity is an instance of active learning, students are creating the content and applying the theory they are studying on their own, the teacher is the
Post a Comment
Read more

Getting started...

     Hi! My name is Lucas, I'm a student at Saint Trinnean's teacher training college. As part of a final assignment I'm starting this blog to share with all of you!        But, why a blog?      The idea is to show and document the process of my final assignment for the subject "Enseñar con Tecnologías", taught by Marcela Villaverde. The aim of the assignment is to plan at least two lessons and enhance them in a meaningful way through the use of the web 2.0 tools and theoretical framework we've studied in 2021. Of course, this plan should be suitable for our future lessons!        We'll cover a lot, so stay tuned!  💪 To jump to our first lesson click here !
Post a Comment
Read more